WP Swiper

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1. ★★★★★ Harun Sekmen

   1.5y ago

   It works very well, congratulations

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2. ★★★★★ chris

   1.8y ago

   Clean and simple block design, easy to implement, no unnecessary bloat. Thank you for providing this plugin.

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3. ★★★★★ Miguel

   1.9y ago

   Wow, thank you very much for such a dedicated work. this plugin works great with gutenberg.

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4. ★★★★★ triggame

   2.0y ago

   Been searching for a true slider plugin like this for a very long time. Integrates with blocks perfectly. Thank you!

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5. ★★★★★ 2chicks

   2.1y ago

   After exhaustive research I found this awesome plugin that helped me build a row slider. I think it’s the only one available that will do this exact thing. I am so pleased. Thanks for this super useful plugin.

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6. ★★★★★ leanderbraunschweig

   2.2y ago

   Just wanted to chime in and add to the positive reviews so far – great implementation of SwiperJS and so far this plugin does exactly what I needed…! Lightweight and clean setup and the straight-forward possibility to add nested blocks to each slides is what makes it stand out for me. Many thanks for sharing this & keep it up!

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7. ★★★★★ vitosbaltos

   2.3y ago

   Please display the youtube button in the slider thumbnails. When adding a link from youtube, there is an empty space where the thumbnail should be. Thank you.

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8. ★★★★★ cvladan

   2.5y ago

   WP Swiper is one of the best out of all WP Sliders I’ve tried, and I’ve tried about 15 of them because: it uses SwiperJS which does not have a jQuery dependency. Well, there are about 5 others like this using same library, but few of them support the next option it supports the “Slides per View” option, so it can be used normally as a Logo slider. Btw, Gutenslider, for example, asks money for this option (???) each slide can be any content, so creating linkable images is not a problem The only downside is that it loads assets on every page, even where block is not used, but this can be solved. I’m asking the author to implement this – conditional loading only when the block is used. It’s simple, just register assets normally, and then enqueue them in “render_block”. That’s it. Thank you in advance!

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.4.6 Improved carousel accessibility by removing non-visible slides from the accessibility tree and keyboard tab order. 1.4.6
2. — Version 1.4.5 Updated the bundled Swiper runtime to 14.0.5. Added reproducible dependency syncing for the bundled Swiper assets. Added public development and contribution documentation. Updated the browser baseline to Chrome and Edge 1.4.5
3. — Version 1.4.4 Improved the editor interface and slide controls. Refreshed the WordPress.org screenshots. Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 7.0. 1.4.4
4. — Version 1.4.3 Added multi-image Media Library selection for creating slides. Retained drag-and-drop image creation as an alternative workflow. 1.4.3
5. — Version 1.4.2 Fixed an editor error caused by reading substring from an undefined value. 1.4.2
6. — Version 1.4.1 Updated image selection to use the WordPress Media Library. 1.4.1

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.6.2

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2025-10-13 4K+ → 5K+ up after 3 days in tier
2. 2025-10-10 5K+ → 4K+ down after 11 days in tier
3. 2025-09-29 4K+ → 5K+ up after 423 days in tier
4. 2024-08-02 3K+ → 4K+ up after 206 days in tier
5. 2024-01-09 2K+ → 3K+ up after 1 days in tier
6. 2024-01-08 3K+ → 2K+ down after 1 days in tier
7. 2024-01-07 2K+ → 3K+ up after 257 days in tier
8. 2023-04-25 1K+ → 2K+ up after 3 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Carousel Slider Block for Gutenberg 50K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A
• GutSlider – All in One Slider and Carousel Blocks for Gutenberg 6K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A
• Awesome Logo Carousel Block 4K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B
• Makeiteasy Slider 1K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B
• Slider and Carousel Block – Responsive, Accessible 700+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B
• Simple Slider Block – Create Sliders From Core Blocks 600+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A

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WP Swiper: 5K+ active installs, 5.0★ (24 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-swiper